From the Gregg Press edition (not pictured): It all started when a small statuette, the mourner--stolen from a fifteenth-century tomb during the French Revolution--turned up suddenly in America.  A man named Harrow, the very rich father of a very naughty daughter, offered Parker $50,000, in advance, to steal it.   This presented no special problem since stealing was Parker's business anyway, and besides, Bett Harrow, the daughter, had something of Parker's that was very incriminating.

But the statuette was in the Washington residence of a man named Kapor, a minor official from one of the Communist nations, who not only had the stolen statuette but had also misappropriated $100,000 of his government's funds.  When Parker went to call on Kapor, he met an agent of the KGB who had been sent to liquadate Mr. Kapor.  But when Menlo, the agent, discovered the value of the statuette, he decided to defect with it--and the misappropriated hundred grand.

Thanks to Leonard Shoup, for this digital photo.  Buy books from him, Parker or otherwise, at http://www.abebooks.com/home/ELDERGODS/.   He's got good stuff.  Tell him I sent ya'.

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